Wool-dyeing machine



(No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 1. L. WELDON. WOOL DYBING MAGHINE.

No! 415,890. Patented Nov. 26, 1889.

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No. 415,890. Patented Nov. 26,1889.

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LEONARD \VELDON, OF AMSTERDAM, NElV YORK.

WOOL-DYEING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 415,890, dated November 26, 1889. 7

Application filed July 1, 1889. Serial No. 316,143. (No model.)

useful Improvements in \VooLDyeing Ma chines, of which the following, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, is

a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to the class of dyeing-machines in which acage or cylinder containing the material to be dyed is arranged rotary partly in and partly out of the vat containing the dye-liquor.

My present invention, while adapted for dyeing various kinds of fibrous'or textile articles, is more especially designed for dyeing raw wool; and it consists, essentially, in dividing the aforesaid cage into longitudinal compartments, each carrying a portion of the wool to be dyed, and arranging in said compartments diaphragms which are movable automatically across the compartments, so as to retain the wool in the portion of the compartment which it occupies when it emerges from the dye liquor until it is carried over the top of the vat and nearly to the point where it again enters the vat, when the aforesaid diaphragms are moved to allow the wool to drop to the opposite side of the compartment, and at the same time the diaphragms are caused to lie across the openings in the periphery of the cage to prevent the wool from falling out of the cage. Said means for treating the wool insures the re Versing of the same in its position during each revolution of the cage and causes the wool to be dyed evenly throughout.

In the annexed drawings, Figure 1 is a vertical transverse section on line a: x of Fig. 2. Fig. 2 is a vertical longitudinal section on line y 3 Fig. 1; and Fig. 3 is a vertical transverse section on line a ,2, Fig. 2.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

A designates the vat containing the dyeliquor, and O is the cage, which is formed of annular heads 0 (3, secured to a shaft D, and cleats or perforated plates extending from head to headand attached to the peripheries thereof. The shaft D is mounted in suitable boxes or bearings secured to the top portions of opposite ends of the vat, and

by means of a gear wheel or pulley I, attached to the shaft at. the exterior of the vat, rotary partments is provided with an opening 0 in the periphery of the cage and extending lengthwise thereof, and of a sufficient width to allow the wool or other material to be dyed to be readily introduced into the compartment. Said opening is preferably adjacent to the obtuse angle of the compartment and at or near the opposite edge of the opening, and to the heads of the cage is pivoted a diaphragm a, which is of a width to reach across the opening 0. Said diaphragm may be either solid or perforated, or consist of tines, as shown, extending from a shaft, by which the diaphragm is pivoted, as aforesaid. The shafts or journals of thediaphragms in the respective compartments protrude through one of the heads 0 of the cage, and to the protruding end of each journal are attached two cams c c, which project in opposite directions therefrom.

To the inner side of the adjacent end of the vat is rigidly attached a segmental way or rib b, which is arranged concentric with the axis of the cage and in the path of the cams c c c, which, during the rotation of the cage, slide upon the top of said rib, and are thereby turned so as to hold the diaphragms a a in positions across the openings 0 O. From the same end of the vat rises a breast B, to the inner side of which is attached a segmental way or rib Z7, which is also concentric with the axis of the cage, but in the path of the cams c, and causes the latter to turn so as to throw and hold the diaphragms in inclined positions toward the acute angles of the compartments.

In the operation of the machine the lastdescribed action causes the diaphragms to fall across the top of the wool lying in the acute angles of the compartments as they emerge from the vat and retain the wool in said position until it has been carried over the top of the vat and toward the opposite side thereof, when the cam cbecomes released from the rib Z) and allows the diaphragm to drop and the wool to fall to the opposite side of the compartment. The other cam c, then coming in contact with the rib b, throws the diaphragm across the opening 0, and thus prevents the wool from falling out of the cage.

Having described my invention, What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A machine for dyeing wool and analogous material, consisting of a vat for containing the dye-liquor, a cage for containing the material J to be dyed, arranged rotary partly in and partly out of said vat and divided into compartments, and diaphragms arranged movably automatically across said compartments, as set forth.

2. A machine for dyeing wool and analogous m aterial,consisting of a dye-liquor vat, a cage arranged rotary partly in and partly out of said vat and divided into compartments, diaphragms arranged movably across the compartments, and shippers arranged to automatically move said diaphragms during the rotation of the cage, as set forth.

3. In combination with the vat A and the cage 0, divided into longitudinal compartments and pivoted to opposite ends of said vat and having its lower portion inside thereof, the diaphragms a a, pivoted to the heads of the cage and having their journals protruding through one of the said heads, cams on the protruding ends of the journal, and shippers arranged in the path of the cams, to actuate said cams and thereby turn the diaphragms, as set forth and shown.

4. In combination with the vat A and the cage C, divided into longitudinal compartments and pivoted to the top portion of opposite ends of the vat, the diaphragms a a a, pivoted to the heads of the cage and having their journals protruding through one of said heads, cams c c, projecting in opposite directions from the protruding ends of the journals, the segmental Way Z) above the Vat and in position to be traversed by the cams c c, and the segmental way Z) in the vat and in position to be traversed by the cams c c c, all combined to operate substantially as described and shown.

5. In combination with the vat A, the cage C,pivoted to the top portion of' opposite ends of the vat, and provided wit-l1 the longitudinal partitions P P P and with the openings 0 O O in its periphery, the diaphragms or act, pivoted to the heads of the cage at one of the edges of the respective openings and having their journals protruding through one of the heads, cams c c, projecting in opposite directions from the protruding ends of the journals, the breast B, rising from the top of the vat, the segmental rib I), attached to the inner side of said breast and in the path of the cams c c, and the rib 19', secured to the inner side of the vat and in the path of the cams c c, substantially-as described and shown.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed my name this 27th day of June, 1889.

LEONARD \VELDON. [L. 8.]

Witnesses:

E. P. WHITE, HENRY C. McELwAIN. 

